The day is "cervezativo (for a beer)" and "honor next to?", sighed that barber with his gaze upwards and the peeling machine in hand, close to the head of Israel Rojas, who did not hesitate to ask for paper and ink to write down the phrase. It was 2017 and Buena Fe was on tour.
A few years later, in 2023, the tasty description has begun to sound by word of mouth. The group of more than two decades recently presented its thirteenth album, Morada, and there it is, as a reminder of happy days, of those we have, at least, Once a year.
It turns out that this new proposal is -in the words of Rojas, director of the group- "a kind of TBT", as well as "a reverence to music as the common home of all the inhabitants of the planet", a sign of respect to the Cuban musical heritage, as is the case of Las más Viejas (the oldest ones).
Friendship, mischief, identity, Cuban identity, disloyalty and, above all, love, are present in the 14 songs that make up this phonogram, in which the incisive pen of Israel Rojas made his own in all the songs. Including Café, whose authorship he shared with the Spanish Andrés Suárez, who already collaborated with the group in Volar sin ti, from the CD Dial. "
On the other hand, this production is the result of the fusion, mainly, between trova, pop, pop-rock and son, masterfully amalgamated with typical harmonies of our sonorous panorama.
"It is similar to its time, to these days. It has had to go through the pains of the pandemic. It is an album of much sacrifice. Dedicated to Cuba, to the house, to what each one of us can feel as our home", Yoel Martínez, founder of the band, underlined.
Listening to this group is a well-known challenge. And Morada ratifies it. It is the usual Buena Fe. The one that does not go down the path of the song that quotes nor allows itself to be drowned by the smoke of the media hatred of which they have become a constant target. For these militants of art, the new album has been "an exercise in growth and maturity", even though they maintain their sonority and the lyrics continue to lead us to the obligatory analysis, to the identification with the themes they deal with.
The result of many hands, knowledge and tasks, Morada, "the most collective album they have made", according to Israel Rojas, is already available on Egrem's digital platforms. And gradually, in its social networks, the group will publish materials related to the phonogram. Also, starting March 14, they will begin a national tour to make all of Cuba a musical abode.
Translated by ESTI
